Facebook CMO steps down, Delta Airlines to block middle seats until 2021, and Netflix offers socially distanced ‘Stranger Things’ experience

Hello, communicators:

Katie Kern, partner at Media Frenzy Global, and Lee Deas, founder of Obviouslee, have founded a new cause called Agencies Act in Solidarity. The initiative encourages all communications professionals across agencies and firms to commit to several diversity, equity and inclusion standards, which include education efforts, increasing diversity within hiring efforts, including Black people in marketing campaigns and images, and creating a company-wide behaviorial code of conduct.

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You can join the Facebook group here and sign the pledge here.

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The social media platform’s chief marketing officer, Antonio Lucio, announced that he’s leaving Facebook effective Sept. 18 to focus on helping organizations embrace diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. He announced his resignation in a Facebook post, writing that it’s a “time for recokoning for the nation and my industry.”